[DCBandita]

I think partial birth abortions are a canard and a religious right framing phrase. First, they are EXTREMELY rare - I think the figure I saw was 2,000 total. Second, they are abhorrent and the idea that a person who haves them is in any way cavaliere about it doesn't ring true to me.

Generally speaking, I think a healthy woman who is responsible enough to wind up pregnant is also responsible enough to decide on an abortion in the first 90 days of that pregnancy. Any other moves to abort the pregnancy after that point should be done only if it endangers the life of the mother AND if it's her choice (given that her life is endangered - in other words, mothers who want to have the baby regardless of the threat to their own life should absolutely be able to do so without interference).

[darkangel82]

All right, this silliness has gone on long enough.

[LRS]

Generally speaking, I think a healthy woman who is responsible enough to wind up pregnant is also responsible enough to decide on an abortion in the first 90 days of that pregnancy. Any other moves to abort the pregnancy after that point should be done only if it endangers the life of the mother AND if it's her choice (given that her life is endangered - in other words, mothers who want to have the baby regardless of the threat to their own life should absolutely be able to do so without interference).

You posted this about the same time I made my last post. A little posting tag so to speak...

[Petronski]

I think the figure I saw was 2,000 total.

Oh, is that all? Only two thousand babies stabbed in the head while their bodies dangled by the neck from the birth canal? Two thousand doesn't seem that bad....

You sick creep.

[jwalsh07]

I think partial birth abortions are a canard and a religious right framing phrase. First, they are EXTREMELY rare - I think the figure I saw was 2,000 total. Second, they are abhorrent and the idea that a person who haves them is in any way cavaliere about it doesn't ring true to me.

You're wrong. One need only read the transcripts of the PBA hearing at SCOTUS last week to know that. You've been conned.

And now to the 90 day deal. I think it admirable of you that you would limit abortion to the first trimester. But that is an arbitrary time chosen by you based on your own morality which I'm sure you'd like your representatives to legislate. Are you a dreaded right wing "Christian"?

[beckysueb]

. First, they are EXTREMELY rare - I think the figure I saw was 2,000 total.

There was a Dr. on tv disputing that number. He said at least 200,000.

[therut]

Let me tell you as a physician about partial birth aboritons in the 3rd trimester. I deliver babies. That child that has been delived except for the head can feel pain. They move and wiggle. I can not imagine how any moral person could at that moment could stick sissors into the bottom of the skull and suck the brains out. It is inhumaine and never medically necessary. That is a LIE. Just go ahead and deliver the head and a live baby. There is no medical reason to kill it at that time except to kill it. What is keeping us from delivering the head and then smashing it with a rock. One minute. Answer that one.